Improvement in needles



' thread, B', hand-of 'a person.

.SAMUEL IvERsfoF NEW BEDFORD, MssACHUsETTs.

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The Schedule referred ton these Letters Patent and making part of the sama v To all persons t'whom these presents may come:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL Ivens, of New Bedford,

in the county of Bristol, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sewing-Needles; and I do hereby declare the vsaine to be fully describedin thefollowing speciiicatiom and rep- Figure S'exhibits the mode in which one of my improved needles is held in one hand and threaded by a The punpose of that part of the needle to which my. improvement specially refers is to enable the vneedle to be threaded with facility and dispateh, without requiring the thread to be passed endwise into and down through the eye of the needle; and the nature of my improvement consist-spin constructing the eye with a lateral opening and an elastic hook, and an inelastic head at the root of such hook, or with the same and an elastic or aninelastic abutment, arranged togethery in manner as represented in the accompanying drawings.

I would remark that I am aware that a needle has been constructed with a hook at one end,and a point at its opposite end, the said hook being inelastic and to catch upon the thread, so as to enable the needle,

while in use, to' draw it through a piece of cloth or other article. Iam also aware that a tag-needle has been made, with a notch or mouth 'in its head or upper end, to lead into an eye, provided with a spring to close"`fthe eye, such being as represented in the United States patent, No. 53,638.

I am also aware ofthe needle represented inN'o. 87,996'of United .States patents, and, consequently, I make no claim to the three needles herein last men tioned, as mine diiiers'essentially from them.

In the rst place, the ey'e or eye-part of my needle `is composed of an elastic hook, and a notch below such hook, and, in continuation of the opening of the hook, the point or end of the hook being bevelled and lapped on. the part-or abutment'below it, or extended intothe. notch, in the-manner as shown at A, in the accomlooped around the index-finger o f the otherl 'sides and rounded ends.

' In threading the needle, it is only necessary to stretch elastic head, from which the part b springs; Thishead is to be inelastic, so that when pressed against by the thimble of a seamstress, while inthe act of forcing the needle into a piece of cloth or other material, it shall so resist` the pressm'e as to prevent any inward springing of the part l).

In iig. 7 the part shown'lat cis intended to be elasl tic, as a straight spring, for the purpose of enabling a thread to be readily drawn out of the needle laterally, and betweenthe ends of the two springs b' c.

f In figs. 3 and 4, the eye is exhibited as formed somel' what dierent from what it is in the remaining iigures,

in which it is shown as made quite long, with parallel the thread across the tongue -or spring b,p1`1l1 the thread toward the needle, and slip the thread downl on and beyond the end of the spring orv tongue b. The tongue will be sprung back fromv the abutment c, and will allow the 'thread to pass into the eye.

u With my needle, the'loop ofthe thread rests against` i the base of the hook or top of the eye, while theneedle may be in the act of drawing the thread yinto a piece of cloth or other material, and, consequently, there is no chance for the' spring to give way, under the draught or pressure yof the thread, and let the thread out of the` 4 eye. f-

I make no claim to the needle described in the United States patent, No. 31,153, in which, to. form the eye, the needle is forked, and has its longer prong bent around against the shorter one, thus rendering the eye very weak and elastic at its upper end, and

liable to spring or collapse under the pressure of a tially in manner and so'as` to form the eye, as hereinbefore explained, the whole being to operate as set v SAMUEL WEBS.

forth.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr. 

